This is the July edition of the Innovation Award podcast hangout recorded by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins to comment on the outstanding features of all the past month nominees and winners PHP and JavaScript packages, the prizes that the authors earned, starting with the nominees from the month of April 2017.

Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video to learn why the nominated packages were considered to be innovative, as well the current rankings of the Innovation Award Championship by author and by country.

The possibility to use of PCS in PHP 7.2 was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins on the episode 85 of the Lately in PHP podcast.

In this episode they also talked about the proposals to support retrying code that throws exceptions, matching regular expressions starting in a position of the text, having final variables, binary serialization of variables, etc..

This article also contains a podcast summary as a 4 minute video and a transcript of the summary.

Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or the summary video, or read the transcript to learn more about these interesting PHP topics.